Articles in Horror Volume 1 Page 5

  Michael still in a serious state looked at the ever so slow drip of his IV and began to laugh at how outlandish he must seem telling of the dark secrets that the castle held. Especially to a foreigner. He would learn soon enough on his own.

  Michael looked at him square in the eye, not a smile on his face. Simon froze dead in his laugh, Michael began to speak "Do you play checkers?" both men broke out in laughter as Michael swung around pulling the night stand close for a game of checkers.

  They played checkers and then on to chess to late in the evening. The sun could be seen setting in a picture window, one of the few not barred from top to bottom, the reason as the infirmary overlooked the center court yard, though in this tower it was high enough to not look at the wrought iron gate that covers the draw bridge or the guards walking to and fro on the towering walls over the court. The suns beams seamed to pierce through the window and onto a cross on the other side of the room, illuminating it as the gold color shimmered on the floor and walls.

  "Wow, what a view" Simon gasps as he placed his Queen in front of his King, "Check mate"

  "What a view," Michael laughed as he pushed over his piece. The sun dipped behind the mountains and you could see the last beam of dusk disappear as the near full moon casts it own beams across the majestic mountains.

  "The sun hardly ever shines around these mountains. It is a rare site in deed. Enjoy it, you may not see the sun for a while!"

  You could hear the wolves off in the distance howling at the brightly lit moon, but the howls seemed to grow ever so close. The howling was becoming louder as it almost appeared to be inside the inner walls.

  "Why does everything seem so dark in this place?" Simon asked as he turned to the surprise presence of Dr. Heulen.

  "Dark Simon?"

  "Umm, yeah, Hi Maxine" Simon replied in surprise

  "Maxine?" Dr Heulen replied

  "Oh, pardon me, I mean Dr. Heulen" for the brief moment he forgot his place as he momentarily lost himself in her eyes.

  "Here take this," she handed him a small container with a few pills "They will help you sleep tonight, you return to your cell tomorrow"

  Simon did as he was told and swallowed them hard; he took a sip from the glass of water she held. He swallowed hard as he could feel the pills stick to his bruised throat like chalk. It burned and put him in excruciating pain. He dropped the glass to grasp his throat to help ease & subdue the torture of the slow falling pills. The glass fell and it shattered onto the floor, he quickly tried to grab the bigger pieces but cut his index finger. The blood began to drip on the floor, she quickly darted her hand to catch the blood drip in mid air. She grabbed his hand and began to suck his finger as the blood ran down his hand; she stopped herself as she began to lick down his finger to his hand. She folded his hand tightly "Forgive me" she shielded her eyes from his, Michael looked at Simon with an almost thumbs up high five, but Simon found this strange, embarrassing but more than strange behavior. Michael just found it erotic.

  "Oh, that's ok" Simon replied to her gesture, "Clumsy me" has he drew his hand back.

  An orderly had come over about as quick as the glass hit the floor to sweep up the mess. Dr. Heulen quickly stood up and retreated to her office churning her hands of any blood that was on them. Oddly the orderly looked Simon square in the eyes as he swept perfectly the mess on the floor without even a glance down.

  He finally spoke to Simon, "mind your clumsiness, accidents can kill you around here" his eyes almost glowed almost bright green, maybe the moonlight coming through the window?

  Simon swallowed with a gulp and Michael just tucked himself into his bed.

  Simon crawled under his covers as the pills began to take affect quickly, he looked over at the orderly walking away, his image was sideways from Simon's position so it seemed eerie as he continued to walk, his steps seemed to fast forward every couple of steps. The whole time the orderly was looking over his shoulder at Simon, watching him drift to sleep.

  That night Simon dreamed, deep dark dreams of dread, he saw himself running the long torch lit halls, trying to catch his breath as large beads of sweat fell as he ran, he saw a light ahead that he was desperately running to, it was the cross in the infirmary, lit by the moon light, he ran faster to get to it. His blue scrubs that he wore as pajamas in the infirmary where soaked dark with sweat, sticking to him, making it even harder for him to run in the restricted fashion. Shadows of dogs running down the hall at him large mountain wolves, snapping as they ran, their green eyes pierced the darkness as they ran.

  Simon ran faster as the end of the hall seemed to lie out of his reach, he stretched his arms out to grab the end of the hall that seemed never to come. The images flashed as the

  image of Maxine seemed to appear to him, she laid naked under the cross trying to cover herself in animal skins that where black as the mountains at night time, with thick tuffs of fur. She covered herself, but moved in ecstasy as she crossed her legs back and forth, feeling the fur between her soft supple skin. Her breasts spilled out from behind them as she reached out calling his name "Simon", "Come to me?"

  Suddenly he awoke with a gasp, he was still in the infirmary but it was late, he looked at the clock that said 3:03am, how is it he woke with the medicine that was suppose to make him sleep through out the night till morning. He got up and walked to the bathroom. He flushed the toilet and washed his face in the basin. He rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck as he looked up in the mirror to see the image of a nude Maxine covered in blood outreaching to him, blood was running down her body and off her out reached arms, so much blood it looked as if a stream of blood was just flowing down from her long flowing hair with each strain acting like a straw to carry the thick red fluid of blood. He yelled out and yet awoke again! A dream, with-in a dream. What kind of drugs where they giving him. What kind of place was he in?

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